The authors explore the profound impact of child analytic experience on equipping the adult analyst with enhanced analytic sensibility. Virginia Ungar presents detailed clinical vignettes from the first session of a child analysis and Jill Scharff provides discussion. The authors use their combined material to illuminate the ways in which the child analyst’s astute observations and associative capacities, honed through work with children, can enrich an adult analyst’s ability to connect with the unconscious communications of their adult patients. Furthermore, the authors contend that experience in child analysis may foster a deeper understanding of transference and countertransference dynamics, facilitate interpretations offered at the moment of urgency, and encourage the use of concise, patient-resonant language, all of which may contribute significantly to the efficacy of adult analytic work.